The Twisted World of Fiber, Hooks, Needles, Wheels and Dating after Widowhood

This is my story, and I'm sticking to it. Warts and all. I wanted to call it 'Seriously? WTF?', but that doesn't quite explain it all. Or does it?

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Hedgie pix

Ok, I finally finished the Hedgehog, and he is in the machine felting as I type this. I even remembered to take before pix. lol Thank you, Debbie for the eyelash yarn, because in a fit of stupidity, I threw all mine away figuring I would never use it again. And of course, now I want to make ALL. THE. HEDGEHOGS. Sigh.................

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Before felting- kinda looks like roadkill :-)

After felting in my Kenmore Oasis, which doesn't have an agitator thingy. He doesn't look very comfortable jammed between the iron & the gallon of distilled water, but it is holding him in the shape I need him to be.

The Oasis does an ok job of felting, I just have to run the water in the slop sink to get it as hot as possible to go in the machine. I throw a couple of big bath towels in with whatever I'm felting, and run it through two wash only cycles. I have no idea what yarn this is. It had no labels. He will have eyes tomorrow. :-) Still not sure what I'm doing for a nose, though.

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I am a mom to 2 mostly grown kids. One goes away to college, and the other can't be removed with a crowbar. My husband died last year at the age of 50. It was very unexpected. We have since picked up the pieces and are moving forward. Well, two steps forward, one step back.